The Big Picture - Hong Kong Protests

Hong Kong lawmakers have postponed a debate over a controversial bill that would allow fugitives to be extradited to China after protesters blocked roads and restricted access to government buildings. The city's legislative council was due to hold the second reading of the bill on Wednesday. The bill has been met with widespread opposition, including from the city's traditionally conservative business community, and prompted more than 1 million of the city's 7.4 million population to take to the streets in protest on Sunday. The decision to postpone the debate came as tens of thousands of protesters once again took to the streets of central Hong Kong in scenes reminiscent of the 2014 democracy demonstrations known as the Umbrella Movement. Protesters began arriving outside the Legislative Council buildings on Tuesday night, where they were greeted by a heavy police presence and bag searches. By Wednesday morning, tens of thousands of mainly young people had arrived in the area, blocking streets and bringing central Hong Kong to a standstill. On this edition of the big picture we will analyse the Hong Kong Protests

Guest - Vivek Katju, Former Ambassador,
K P Nayar, Strategic Expert,
Maj Gen Ravi Arora (Retd.) , Chief Editor, Indian Military Review,

Anchor - Frank Rausan Pereira

[jatinsukhija]

The Big Picture 12 6 19 Hong Kong Protests

Hong Kong lawmakers have postponed a debate over a controversial bill that would allow fugitives to be extradited to China after protesters blocked roads and restricted access to government buildings. The city's legislative council was due to hold the second reading of the bill on Wednesday. The bill has been met with widespread opposition, including from the city's traditionally conservative business community, and prompted more than 1 million of the city's 7.4 million population to take to the streets in protest on Sunday. The decision to postpone the debate came as tens of thousands of protesters once again took to the streets of central Hong Kong in scenes reminiscent of the 2014 democracy demonstrations known as the Umbrella Movement. Protesters began arriving outside the Legislative Council buildings on Tuesday night, where they were greeted by a heavy police presence and bag searches. By Wednesday morning, tens of thousands of mainly young people had arrived in the area, blocking streets and bringing central Hong Kong to a standstill. On this edition of the big picture we will analyse the Hong Kong Protests
• Hong kong reverted to china in 1997 after lease of England expired.
• It is a special administrative region of china.
• Hong kong want to preserve it’s identity.
• China will use the law to get hold of people who china find critical. China will file criminal cases on political activist and extradite to china.
• 2009 protest were over national security. China wanted to enforce its police in hong kong. China gave up the law.
• Yellow Umbrella protest - 2014 protest were because hong kong people do not wanted china to have a say in selection of chief executive. only those can contest election who believe in one country two system. China didn’T GIVE UP ITS POWER. POLITICAL ACTIVIST WERE PROSECUTED.
• This protest has much bigger than other previous election.
• One country two system – hong kong’s basic law – judicial independence, own legislature, economic system, and certain human rights and freedom. Defence, external affairs and other aspect are controlled by Chinese.
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[donbuddha]

K P nayar ji, katju ji, General Arora
It's always pleasure to learn from such minds
Thanks Frank and RStv

[Readingwholelife]

please do something with panelists behind ongoing television screen its distracting

[thanosrulz]

If I crack UPSC I would give credit to Frank sir also..:)

[vaibhavgosar]

There is some noise disturbance in the background

[kakaking]

can you please do a program on labor and land reforms??

[kshis]

I urge the Taiwanese, people from Hong Kong, Tibet and Xinjiang or East Turkestan to unite their efforts against the Pooh bear or Emperor Xi and his nefarious autocracy

[Dhruvchaudhary]

y there is creepy background music...🙄

[Priyanka-jfwi]

Please made rstv special on hongkong extradition bill

[kunal_harma]

only heart is not sufficient lol...rofl

[kanki]

Not to demean any of them I am sure they are very experienced and knowledgeable and I learnt lot from their debates , but after seeing many such debates on foreign policies they seem to be repeating their formed opinions without much analysis of various issues.I urge you try to frequently bring practising various foreign correspondents and recently retired diplomats to bring depth and analysis.

[Observer]

The ONLY debate on indian media which is sensible without a bias.

[lalitpoonia]

Mr. Nayar doesn't seems to be an expert instead it looks like that he has left leaning.

[kshis]

Mr. Katju, this is a public forum and there's no need to air your personal opinions....BTW being an Ambassador urself you might as well remember the fact that India tops the list in terms of inward global remittances and this is the reason why Modi Govt has focused in on this section of the population....dont let ur outdated mindset cloud the future prospects....as an NRI myself I take great umbrage to your views and RSTV should have clipped this part as its irrelevant to the topic being discussed.

[RahulSharma-ojik]

Katju sir bohot slow bolte hai ... 1.25x karna padta hai 😦

[dennisdonovan]

Beijing has a picture of each and every protester due to technology

[amarjeetverma]

hong kong and makau both are taken by china cost of lease for 99year both city like londan .
hongkong must demand it's freedom with help of taiwan .

[pabankumar]

Es duneya m jg snsar k peta prmatma ka peyar pakr mra jebn bdgya snsar ko paln bal bhgban m tumare god m sona chhahta ho sda sda k lea aapn mujh etna peyar deya poord prmatma sar jg snsar m sda sda k lea tumare jay jay kar amr

[aspirant]

What China is doing in Hong Kong, Indians are doing in J&K.

[Sunspark]

Sir pls change the way you speak....or Change the anchor